"I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing."
"I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing."
"I want to torture the people who don't understand the world of the faeries. You'll get some reporter from Vogue who doesn't know what she's talking about, who paints me as some insipid Tinker Bell character- well, Tinker Bell ain't up my Strasse, baby. I'm not some shivering waif in the forest. Sometimes I want to grab these bitches by the hair and take them to the world of faerie and say, 'Would you repeat that?'"
"I don't write for races or religion-you know, I'm into faeries."
"It's the faerie's revenge, they say."
"The faerie question is a loaded one because those that don't have a connection with believing in the spirit world find this a bit ridiculous. The Tuatha de Danann in Celtic mythology are the original faeries. They were a people that were driven underground. Underground being a metaphor for another dimension. When people put faeries and unicorns together, they are not really understanding the origin of the unicorn. The unicorn is Christian. The Christians were threatened by the virility of the horse. Male or female. In ancient Celtic Mythology quite a few of the faerie queens are connnected with being able to shape shift into horses. Unicorns represented purity for the Christians but they could not handle or accept the sensuality that was a part of all the Celtic Goddesses. So in a sense, Tinkerbell has done Celtic mythology a lot of damage and really lessened what it really means. When you go to Ireland and you talk to an Irish builder who watches football, gaelic football, a hundred times rougher than American football, and you talk about faeries in a derogatory manner, I don't want to place bets on what your face will look like. Faerie is not Tinkerbell to them. All that is so deluded."
"I thank the faeries 'cause I'm not stupid."
"Sort of a naughty faerie thing to do."
"It goes back to studying mythology and really getting fascinated with a race of people who were driven underground. They were called faeries in later lore, but they've become this whole caricature. This is difficult to explain to people, when all they can think about is Tinkerbell."
"Truly, I was a sweetheart when I was little, like the Honeysuckle Faery. Sweet-pea. But sweet-peas are not popular after second grade. Sweet-peas become nerds really fast."
"As a little girl, I really feel like I touched the other world. In Ireland, they have terms for it - the other world. They believe there is an alternate world than this one. It's part of the Celtic belief, the mythology, that there are beings existing there. They call them the Sidhe. In Ireland, they are very much in acknowledgment of the Sidhe."
"We are all faeries living underneath a leaf on a lily pad."